As a landlord of large commercial or residential developments, you will want to protect your investment as much as you can. Utilising a corporate estate management company can offer you peace of mind that your portfolio of residential or commercial properties are being effectively managed and looked after.

Through Countrywide Estate Management, we can offer specialist services, covering the following areas:

• Portfolio management
• Proactive asset management
• Leasehold & service charge management
• Ground rent collections

Managing a national portfolio of more than 60,000 residential, commercial and leasehold developments, Countrywide Estate Management specialise in managing entire portfolios and apartment blocks, offering services including:

Residential Management

• Letting and re-letting of unit
• Full documentation issue
• Repair and refurbishment options
• Managing the income and expenditure and controlling arrears
• Facilitating insurance
• Identifying opportunities for disposal or swapping parts of portfolios
• Constantly re-valuing the asset base, reviewing yields and the performance of the various portfolios
• Dedicated property management agent

Leasehold and Estate Management

• Full management of apartment blocks
• Residential estate management and freehold houses
• Collection of ground rents and service charges
• Preparation of service charge budgets and financial forecasts
• Debt recovery
• Negotiation of contracts
• Lease renewals
• Organising insurance, valuations and claims
• Resident liaison
• Preparing Year end accounts and returns
• 24 hour on-call service

In addition to our specialism within commercial and residential portfolio management, we can also offer advice and options for letting services, or help you to expand your current portfolio by adding new investment properties.